Air-washer.



PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

G. W. ROGERS. AIR WASHER.

APPLIUATION FILED 0015. 1906.

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To (LZZ whoin, it may concern.-

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

oHARLEs w. ROGERS,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MATHIS BROTH- ERS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

' AIR-WASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed October 5, 1906. Serial No. 337,525.

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. ROGERS, a citizen of the United S ates of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Air-' Washers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relatestto air-washing apparatusused in connection with the ventilating and heating systems of buildings, and has for its object to provide a simple and effective structural formation and combina tion of parts whereby the excess of water is eliminated from the passing air before reaching the fan or air-mover by'which the washed air is forced into the ventilating-conduits of the building, all as will hereinafter more fully ap ear.

n the accompanying drawings, Figure is a longitudinal vertical section of an a1r-washing apparatus to which the present invention is applied. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail vertical section-of the eliminating plates or slats of the present invention. Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the same.

Similar numerals of reference indicate like parts in the different views.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the inlet-opening in the wall of the building and which opening communicates with the room or compartment containing the air-washing and air-moving parts of the system.

2 is a heating-coil arranged in the upper portion of said room in adjacent relation to the inlet-opening 1 aforesaid.

3 is a damper controlling a passage beneath the heating-coil 2 and adapted to control the amount of coldair admitted independently of said heating-coil to the air washing and air-moving parts of the system.

4 are a series of jet-heads, through which Water in the form of a fine spray is discharged into the room aforesaid in a plane immediately back of the heating-coil 2 and adapted to have a Washing action upon the passing body of air.

5- is the fan or airmo ver, arranged at the other end of the room aforesaid and adapted to draw the air through the above-described parts and force the air so drawn into the ven' described is common to different forms of air- Washers now in general use, and the present improvement involves the provision of a water-eliminator for removing the excess of water from the air before the same reaches the fan or air-mover 5 aforesaid and comprises a structural formation and arrangement of arts as follows: 6 are one or more vertical f1 room aforesaid ,between the series of jetheads 4 and fan 5 and having a size corresponding with the transverse width and height of said room. 7 are a series of transverselyarranged eliminator slats or plates supported at their respective ends in the frames 6 aforesaid. Such slats have an inclined position in relation'to a vertical longitudinal plane of the apparatus and are preferably of the curved form shown, as affording a minimum resistance to the assing body of air and a maximum degree 0' Water elimination. 'I he preferred arrangement of the s ats 7' is with the top margin of one slat in a higher horizontal plane than the bottom margin of the next adjacent slat above, and as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. 8 are a series of holes or apertures in the slats 7, preferably having a staggered arrangement and an elongated form transversely of the apparatus, as shown in Fig. 3. 9 are transverse rails for supporting the upper margins of the slats 7 vhe'nsaid slats are formed of a hght material. 10 are downturned lips at the lower margins of the slats 7, adapted to im-- part stiffness to said slats and at the same time form a watershed for directing the separated water into the series of receivingtroughs now to be described. series of transverselyextending open to troughs arran ed beneath the downturne lips 10 of the s ats, with the sad llps extending partly into the troughs, as shown, to imsure a more perfect drip of the Water from ofi said slats into the troughs.

Having thus fully described 111 sa'. d 1nvention, what I claim as new, an deslre to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In an air-washing system, an ellm nator comprising a series of curved slats having an inclined arrangement in the path of the moving body of air. 1

2. In an air-washing system, an el mlnator comprising a series of slats formed with aper- 11 are a ames arranged transversely in the tures and arranged the paths of the moving body of air.

3. In an air-washing system, comprising a series of tures in staggered relation, said slats being arranged in an inclined direction 1n the path of the moving body of air.

4. In an air-Was ng system, comprising a series of slats formed with obi long apertures and arranged in an inclined direction in air. 7

'5; In an air-washing system, comprising a series of curved slats formed 1 with oblong apertures in staggered relation, said slats being arranged in an inclined directi'on in the path of the moving body of air. 5 6. In an'air-Washingsystem, an eliminator 1 comprising a series of'curyed slats having an inclined arrangement in the path of the mo i'rig body of air, and a series of receivingi an eliminator 1 slats formed with aperan eliminator the path of the moving body of in an inclined direction in troughs arranged at the lower margins of the s ats.

7. In an air-washing system, an eliminator comprising a series of slats formed With apertures and arranged in an inclined direction in the path of the moving body of air, and a series of receiving-troughs arranged at the lower margins of the slats.

8. In an air-Washing system, an eliminator comprising a series of slats having an inclined arrangement in the path of the movin body of air and provided With downturned on an eliminator their lower margins, and a series of receivingtroughs arranged beneath said lips.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 1st October, 1906.

day of CHARLES W. ROGERS.

lVitnesses:

ROBERT BURNS, HENRY MOE. 

